The Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies appointed last
session to report upon the question of slavery in the French Colonies, did not complete their labours in time to lay the result before the Chambers ; but the following resolutions are now circulated as those adopted by the Committee, of which M. de Tocqueville was the re. porter- " I. In the session of 1841, a bill shall be brought in for fixing, the period at which there shall be a general and simultaneous abolition of slavery in all the French Colonies. 2. Thi.; bill shall declare the amount of the Would.. ties due in consequence of the measure, and insum the rehmlnirsement to the State, by means of a charge upon the wages orate new-enfranchh,cd slaves. 3. The lull shalt also lay down the bases of regulations for insuring a continuance of labour by the enfranchisal slaves, for enlightening and moralizing them, and preparing them for habits alive labour."
M. Tillers was expected in Paris on Tuesday. The health ofit member of his family, rather than any political cause, is said to have hastened his return. The Temp.s., however, says that a struggle exists between different portions of the Cabinet, one wishing to keep out 31. Thiess, the other seeking to bring him in.
A. letter from Gallicia, in the Paris Natimal, says that the corn-crops in that country have beim nearly destroyed by floods of the Vistula and the Dniester. In soine places the land had the appearance of a sea. Bread was flair times time usual price, and the peasantry almost famished
It was rumoured in Lisbon, at the date of the last accounts front that capital—the 7th instant —that the King of France had consented to become a mediator between the English and Portuguese Governments on the slavery question.
Intelligence has been received, that on the 29th of May, Captain Tucker, senior British officer off the Angola. station, entered into a convention with Admiral Noronha, Governor of the colony, for the more effectual suppression of the slave-trade ; and the Portuguese say that they tire willing to abide by the terms which Captain Tucker accepted. By this convention, slaves taken on board of Portuguese vessels are to be brought before a Portuguese court ; and if any doubt arises as to the capture, or the proceeds of the prise, the ease is to be referred to the decision of both Governments. The Lisbon papers ask, whether CaptainTucker acted upon Lord Palmerston's instructions; and if he did, why should Lord Palmerston have insisted upon different terms when in negotiation upon the subject with the Portuguese Government?
The vintage has been got in throughout the Moselle district. The weather has not been favourable ; and the grapes, though rather abundant, are not expected to produce wine of as good a quality as usual.
Hitherto the machinery used in Saxony has been of the commonest sort ; so that the cheapness of the manufactured goods has been owing to the low rate of wages, a rate which compels the artisans to labour long and diligently in order to insure for their families the scantiest supply of the most common necessaries of life. The capital of the English manufacturer, which empowers him to employ the most perfect machinery, joined to his greater experience, has hitherto enabled him to compete successfully in most branches of skilled labour, The want of capital, which has hitherto been the chief obstacle to the still greater extension of the cottononanufacture in Saxony, would in time be reme- died by the successful operation of the existing establishments; but the
manufacturers itt that country, unwilling to wait for so gradual a deve- lopment of their resources, have had recourse to the expedient of esta- blishing joint stock companies. The total capital of associations of this character that have been recently formed, and which are now proceed- ing to the accomplishment of their various objects, amounted in October 1837 to nearly 13,000,000 dollars, (about 2,000,000/. sterling.) a large sum for that country, amid the greater part of which is furnished by the bankers and other capitalists of Leipsic.—Ayrshire Examiner.
Mr. APGregor, who is at Naples at present, has offered on the part of the British Govermnent to abandon the privilege of paying no more tonnage-duties than Neapolitan vessels, in exchange for a ditninUtinon of duty on certain commodities of general use. The Neapolitan Go- vernment pleads that, if it reduce its tariff, this will benefit France gratuitously, unless France should consent also to abandon its privilege of not paying tonnage-duties. The English Government beg of the French to abandon this privilege in their own interest. This appears very simple, very frank, and not in the least unfriendly, although the Constitutionnel goes out of its way to make a diatribe against England of two columns thereon.-2'imes.
A number of commanders and superior officers of the Ottoman fleet, who succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the Egyptian Government, had returned to Constantinople.
The attempts of Messrs. Wright and Co. and of Mr. Lloyd to form a bank at Athens, have failed, partly because of the continued and un- punished peculation practised in all the public departments. The latest advices from Tripoli received in Malta stated, that all the tribes residing in the neighbourhood of that city had made their sub- mission to the Ottoman Governor, and that the insurrection was then confined to the district of Bengazi.
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